Over the course of Summer 2018, we'll hit six continents, bridging the gap between Silicon Valley innovation and entrepreneurs all over the world. Hackathons are built for rapid innovation, and rapid isn't always pretty. But no matter the roadblock, broken code or bumps, we continue on and push forward, together. There's no boundary or limit to what we can create.

We offer our own Grand Prize and team up with awesome sponsors who have their own challenges and prizes you can go after. Aiming for the HACKcelerator invite? Only in it for some cool hardware? Good news, you can go for as many challenges as you want!

Challenge 1:

AngelHack Challenge: Challenge yourself and your entrepreneurial spirit. Make something innovative without limits, something that brings positive change to the world, even something that solves a small problem. It's that simple.

Property Management – Develop ideas & solutions to disrupt traditional property management model and processes, bring it to a whole new level in terms of service efficiency and user experience (with a reduced cost)

Ideas/solutions can range from the use of IoT, blockchain, shared economy, design & build to data science and analysis, smart parking and information communication & sharing.

PropTech Prize: 10,000 CNY for the team that can convince the JLL judges.

Challenge 4:

Agora RTC App Challenge: Build an App or Website that uses the Agora real-time-communications (RTC) platform. Use RTC to solve a real world problem, re-invent the future, or simply be creative!

Prize:

5,000 CNY in cash prize.

A paid trip to Beijing RTC Event in Sep 2018!

Challenge 5:

Get ready for Call for Code with this preliminary challenge to improve logistics based on traffic and weather activity. Using the understanding of weather and traffic conditions can reduce the number of people affected by mobilizing them effectively. IBM Code Patterns for inspiration to kickstart your solutions or build your ideas upon other IBM Code Patterns and services that are provided by the IBM Cloud.

Call for Code, https://developer.ibm.com/callforcode/​ is a worldwide, multi-year initiative that inspires developers to solve pressing global problems with sustainable software solutions. Get a leg up on the competition, by using this challenge to create an application that helps build resilient communities, and safeguards the health and well-being of individuals and institutions.

Virtual Prize: it is a global competition (not a city winner):

First Place $7500 USD to be split amongst the winning team

Second Place $2500 USD be split amongst the winning team

Challenge 6:

Code For A Cause Impact Award Challenge: Build technology that solves a social or environmental problem and positively impacts your local community.

Code For A Cause Impact Award Prize: One Impact Award will be given out at each event in the Global Hackathon Series. At the end of the Global Hackathon Series, the top Impact Award projects will be chosen by an expert judging panel including; Chan Zuckerberg, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; and more. These top five teams will receive an official invite into the HACKcelerator.

All ages, genders, and skill levels are welcome. Come solo or in a team of up to five, and spend the weekend learning new skills, meeting your local tech community and tech sponsors, enjoying free food, and more.

Our attendees typically consist of developers looking to improve their skills or expand their horizons, students, designers of all skill-sets, and serious entrepreneurs that can add value to teams. Bring your ideas and let's go!

THE SEVEN ANGELHACK HACKATHON RULES:

We know some rules are meant to be broken, but you should probably (read: definitely) stick by these:

1. Fresh Code - We all start coding at the same time. It's cool to work on designs beforehand, digital mockups, open source frameworks, and anything else available to everyone, but keep things within fair limits.

2. Code Review - Winning teams may be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before winning. This is to ensure that all code used is in fact fresh.

3. Ownership and IP - You own your IP and whatever you create. Simple as that.

4. Team Size - No more than five people.

5. Submissions - Each hackathon has its individual hackathon.io​ page where projects need to be submitted by the designated time. You'll receive an email with instructions on how to do just that.

6. Demos - You'll have 2 minutes to demo the functionality of your project and talk through your idea, and 1 minute for Q&A from judges.